Robert Hodges
Robert Hodges serves as CEO at Altinity, an enterprise provider for ClickHouse. Robert has over 30 years of experience with database systems and applications including pre-relational databases such as M204, online SQL transaction processing, Hadoop, and analytics. In the last few years, his work has focused on analytical databases, Kubernetes, and open source. Robert is the founder of the Open Source Analytics Conference (osacon.io).
Sessions Montréal 2026
Five Ways to Slow Your Analytic Database (and Avoid Them)
Session en Anglais - Intermédiaire
We all want analytics that deliver real-time results, but too often systems crawl like slugs. This talk reveals the five biggest performance killers: choosing the wrong database, poor input batching, flawed schemas, queries that don’t parallelize, and skimping on resources. We’ll explain why each slows you down and how to avoid them. You may not hit gazelle speed, but you won’t be stuck at slug pace either.
What's in a Kubernetes Data Platform? Let's Build One!
Session en Anglais - Intermédiaire
Kubernetes is a popular platform for running databases, often as DBaaS for developers. This talk shares real-world lessons from building and operating analytic SaaS platforms. We’ll cover deploying databases on Kubernetes, monitoring, and providing APIs so developers can self-provision and manage. Guidance also includes upgrades, backups, and multi-tenancy—everything you need to start building your own database platform.
